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In Reply to: RE: Let's see your R2R machines.... posted by astrotoy on September 03, 2014 at 21:28:23
Mine looks exactly like that, except for having the Bottlehead tape path mods installed (replacing fixed tape guides with teensy roller bearings). And mine outputs directly from the tape heads to a deHavilland 222 tapehead preamp.
My other deck is a standard-issue Teac A2300 with built in Dolby processing for playing Barclay-Crocker and other Dolbyized tapes.
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I use this Dolby B Encoder/Decoder which was built by Dolby for that dual purpose. Steve "Ironbut" Koto, modified it as he has done with several of these and I think it is the best sounding dolby B decoder around. I have used it to rip over 400 dolby B encoded R2R tapes, mostly Barclay-Crocker but also a bunch of Londons, Philips and DG.
I had THE worst luck with Dolby encoders/decoders. Three outboard Teac units bit the dust and I couldn't find a tech who could fix them. Then I went with a Nakamichi NR-200 which did survive for a couple years but its insertion loss was too much for me. I ended up settling for the Teac A2300SD (Dolby) deck, which still works, and any Dolby-encoded tapes I really like are played on the Teac and dubbed to my Otari sans Dolby.
My luck with outboard dolby B decoders was similar to yours. Two different Teacs plus one other that I cannot remember the brand were all bad. It wasn't until Steve told me about what he was doing to the original dolby B devices and lent me his first mod that I realized how good the sound could get. I had him build me one and have used it to rip over 400 dolby B encoded R2R tapes, including over 300 of the Barclay-Crocker tapes (all to 192/24 using a Pacific Microsonics Model Two and Pyramic software with a Mykerinos card.)
Charlie King has had good success at getting those Dolby units to work. :(
Myles B. Astor
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Bruce in PA
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